S.A. Ward ~ Proud Liberal!!
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Current prosecuting attorney, former public defender, future [down the road] criminal defense attorney. Am the mother of two young, wonderful, kind, brilliant, beautiful daughters, ages 8 and 5. Also, depending on whether one counts dating, living-in, or marital anniversaries, I've been with my husband respectively 22 years, 15 years, or 11 years! My mother's people were Norwegian immigrants who settled in Minnesota and included both a father and son who fought with Sherman in the Civil War, and her father (my Grandpa Ole) who helped start the Farmer Laborite Movement during the Great Depression. My Dad's people were Russian Jews escaping from Czarist-era Russia and anti-Semitic pogroms there.
Hiking, camping, reading, listening to music, going to movies, playing with my kids, political activism and blogging
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Reading
Racecar driving (as a spectator and for one blissful season as a participant at a local track)
Hiking
Camping
Politics
Reading
Racecar driving (as a spectator and for one blissful season as a participant at a local track)
Hiking
Camping
Politics
Eclectic -- with rare exceptions I like everything from opera to heavy metal. My standard comfort music is 60's era soul, R&B;, rock and roll, motown, and country-fried rock.
The Rockford Files
The Prisoner
House M.D.
Dexter
Hunter and Hunted
Forensic Files
Murder by the Book
The Investigators
The Prisoner
House M.D.
Dexter
Hunter and Hunted
Forensic Files
Murder by the Book
The Investigators
The Americanization of Emily, Victor/Victoria, Murphy's Romance, Marlowe
Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, The Omega Man, Will Penny, Soylent Green
Indiana Jones movies, Witness, The Fugitive, Six Days/Seven Nights, Sabrina
Ghosts of Mississippi, Mississippi Burning, Holocaust, Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan, Flags of our Fathers, The Longest Day, The Bridge at Remagen
Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, The Omega Man, Will Penny, Soylent Green
Indiana Jones movies, Witness, The Fugitive, Six Days/Seven Nights, Sabrina
Ghosts of Mississippi, Mississippi Burning, Holocaust, Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan, Flags of our Fathers, The Longest Day, The Bridge at Remagen
Too numerous to list.... Have read To Kill A Mockingbird and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to point of memorization as a child. Am currently reading one of Kathy Reich's mysteries, "Bare Bones," and Jon Meachum's biography of President Andrew Jackson, "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House."
"Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it." -- George Santayana
"Whatever does not kill you makes you stronger." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke
"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Whatever does not kill you makes you stronger." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke
"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Clarence Darrow
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Theodore Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Rosa Parks
Robert Kennedy
Queen Latifah
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Clarence Darrow
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Theodore Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Rosa Parks
Robert Kennedy
Queen Latifah
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+2 raves How awful. My god. Things like this leave me just speechless. Accordingly, I'll post this ... How awful. My god. Things like this leave me just speechless. Accordingly, I'll post this enewsletter from Tikkun I might not otherwise have posted today:
Leftist prof.: Bomb at my home shows settler violence spilling over Green Line
By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel News, Zeev Sternhell
Professor Zeev Sternhell on Friday said the bomb attack against him late Wednesday was a sign that settler violence was spilling over the Green Line into Israel proper.
He told Israel Radio that, "There are two populations in the territories and there are two systems of law, and if settlers are allowed to beat Palestinians, to uproot their orchards and demolish their houses ? why shouldn't this happen across the Green Line?"
The Green Line demarcates Israel's border with the West Bank as it lay before the 1967 Six Day War.
Sternhell, a Haaretz columnist and peace activist (whose writings appear frequently in Tikkun Magazine and who serves on the Advisory Board of the Network of Spiritual Progressives), was lightly injured when a pipe bomb exploded outside his home in Jerusalem, in what police suspect could be a new campaign by right-wing extremists to target prominent left-wingers. [ Ed Note: There has been no action taken so far by any of the so-called Jewish defense organizaitons like ADL to contact peace organizations and institutions in the U.S. like Tikkun to offer help or protection.]
He said that he was sure that the attack had been perpetrated by a member of the extreme right. "It is possible that this was done by a lone crazy person, an organization or an entire settlement."
The Israel Prize winner also blamed apathy to settler violence for the bombing. "Society does not respond," he said during the radio interview, adding that when someone does in fact respond it is "positively or with a wink."
Outside Sternhell's home and in nearby streets Wednesday, the police found fliers offering NIS 1.1 million to anyone who killed members of left-wing human rights movement Peace Now. This led to the suspicion that Jewish terrorists were behind the pipe-bomb attack, due to Sternhell's harsh criticism of West Bank settlers and their harassment of Palestinians.
"These are the developments that lead to the collapse of a very fragile democracy, as happened in Europe," Sternhell said. He was apparently referring to the rise of Nazism. Sternhell is an internationally renowned expert on the history of fascism. He was awarded the country's highest honor, the Israel Prize, earlier this year for his work in the field.
Dichter: Jewish terrorists tried to murder Zeev Sternhell
On Thursday, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter called the incident "a nationalist terror attack apparently perpetrated by Jews" and said the police would not rest until "those terrorists" were behind bars.
"We should see the explosive as aimed at killing," Dichter said, adding that the attack "takes us back to the days of [Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin's assassination."
The police stressed that the bomb was not meant to intimidate but was a murder attempt.
After the attack on the professor, the police have beefed up security around the home of Peace Now head Yariv Oppenheimer.
"If this was not an act committed by a deranged person but by someone who represents a political view, then it is the beginning of the disintegration of democracy," Sternhell said Wednesday from his hospital bed.
He said that "the incident illustrates the fragility of Israeli democracy, and the urgent need to defend it."
"On the personal level, if the intent was to terrorize, it has to be very clear that I am not easily intimidated," he said. "But the perpetrators tried to hurt not only me, but each and every one of my family members who could have opened the door, and for that there is no absolution and no forgiveness."
The Israel Prize award for Sternhell drew fire from West Bank settlers and their supporters, who unsuccessfully petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to block it.
Kadima leader and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni condemned Wednesday's attack, saying that the incident was "intolerable, and cannot be glossed over."
At a ceremony marking the Rosh Hashanah holiday at the Foreign Ministry, Livni said that "Israel is a lawful state and is populated by a society with values. It is the responsibility of the government and Israeli society to renounce such phenomena as soon as they rear their heads."
Senior political figures also expressed outrage at the news of the attack on Sternhell, which has touched a nerve given the country's history of political violence, they said.
"We are returning to the dark era of pipe bombs aimed at people, in this case against a very gifted person who never hesitates to express his opinion," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said.
According to the chairman of the Knesset's internal affairs committee, Labor MK Ophir Pines-Paz: "The attack on Prof. Sternhell is a cowardly, terrorist act by those with no sense of justice." He urged the police and Shin Bet security service to strive to capture the perpetrators quickly and ensure that they receive hefty prison sentences.
"They'd better not talk to us about a few wild weeds," Meretz chairman Haim Oron said. "These people appear on the right wing."
"This thuggish and dangerous act is the result of the continuing see-no-evil approach toward the vicious violence against soldiers and police officers and anyone else who doesn't agree with the brutish section of the extreme right wing," Oron added.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, an activist with a fringe settler group calling itself the National Jewish Front, said Sternhell was an irrelevant figure and that he did not believe settlers were behind the attack. "I don't denounce this incident, but say categorically that we are not involved," Ben-Gvir said.
Sternhell had recently received threatening phone calls, but the bomb attack on him took the Shin Bet and police by surprise. They had no intelligence of a terror group targeting left-wing activists.
A special police team started taking statements from neighbors of the Sternhell family. The police believe the perpetrators stayed in a house nearby in the past few weeks, studying Sternhell's movements, and that passersby and neighbors must have seen them.
"There are hundreds of peace activists in Jerusalem. We have no sign of any intention to harm anyone specific and cannot protect so many people without more specific information," a police source said.[Editor's note: The Israeli army has no problem using tens of thousands of Israelis to defend West Bank settlements created by Right-wing Jewish ultra-nationalists and fundamentalists, but it can't figure out how to protect a small community of peace activists.]
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McCain said our economy is fundamentally strong, ye... McCain said our economy is fundamentally strong, yet we are witnessing the failure of large mortgage companies and banks. McCain has proven just what an empty suit he is and why he should not be president. Is he out of touch with reality? (more)
+4 raves The man is either a pathetic whore who has sold his soul to the devil to get to the Oval Office e... The man is either a pathetic whore who has sold his soul to the devil to get to the Oval Office even if it is one step ahead of when the Grim Reaper comes a callin' or he is senile. Take your pick. (more) -
+7 raves a major Savings and Loan scandal of approximately twenty years ago. Though McCain was implicated... a major Savings and Loan scandal of approximately twenty years ago. Though McCain was implicated mainly as having poor judgment instead of bad morals, the last several months and his Veep pick do not reflect well on that judgment having improved at all.
Is John McCain a Crook?
Chris Suellentrop
Posted Friday, Feb. 18, 2000, at 2:35 PM ET
The controversial George W. Bush-sponsored poll in South Carolina mentioned John McCain's role in the so-called Keating Five scandal, and McCain says his involvement in the scandal "will probably be on my tombstone." What exactly did McCain do?
In early 1987, at the beginning of his first Senate term, McCain attended two meetings with federal banking regulators to discuss an investigation into Lincoln Savings and Loan, an Irvine, Calif., thrift owned by Arizona developer Charles Keating. Federal auditors were investigating Keating's banking practices, and Keating, fearful that the government would seize his S&L, sought intervention from a number of U.S. senators.
At Keating's behest, four senators--McCain and Democrats Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Alan Cranston of California, and John Glenn of Ohio--met with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, on April 2. Those four senators and Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich., attended a second meeting at Keating's behest on April 9 with bank regulators in San Francisco.
Regulators did not seize Lincoln Savings and Loan until two years later. The Lincoln bailout cost taxpayers $2.6 billion, making it the biggest of the S&L scandals. In addition, 17,000 Lincoln investors lost $190 million.
In November 1990, the Senate Ethics Committee launched an investigation into the meetings between the senators and the regulators. McCain, Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, and Riegle became known as the Keating Five.
(Keating himself was convicted in January 1993 of 73 counts of wire and bankruptcy fraud and served more than four years in prison before his conviction was overturned. Last year, he pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud and was sentenced to time served.)
McCain defended his attendance at the meetings by saying Keating was a constituent and that Keating's development company, American Continental Corporation, was a major Arizona employer. McCain said he wanted to know only whether Keating was being treated fairly and that he had not tried to influence the regulators. At the second meeting, McCain told the regulators, "I wouldn't want any special favors for them," and "I don't want any part of our conversation to be improper."
But Keating was more than a constituent to McCain--he was a longtime friend and associate. McCain met Keating in 1981 at a Navy League dinner in Arizona where McCain was the speaker. Keating was a former naval aviator himself, and the two men became friends. Keating raised money for McCain's two congressional campaigns in 1982 and 1984, and for McCain's 1986 Senate bid. By 1987, McCain campaigns had received $112,000 from Keating, his relatives, and his employees--the most received by any of the Keating Five. (Keating raised a total of $300,000 for the five senators.)
After McCain's election to the House in 1982, he and his family made at least nine trips at Keating's expense, three of which were to Keating's Bahamas retreat. McCain did not disclose the trips (as he was required to under House rules) until the scandal broke in 1989. At that point, he paid Keating $13,433 for the flights.
And in April 1986, one year before the meeting with the regulators, McCain's wife, Cindy, and her father invested $359,100 in a Keating strip mall.
The Senate Ethics Committee probe of the Keating Five began in November 1990, and committee Special Counsel Robert Bennett recommended that McCain and Glenn be dropped from the investigation. They were not. McCain believes Democrats on the committee blocked Bennett's recommendation because he was the lone Keating Five Republican.
In February 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee found McCain and Glenn to be the least blameworthy of the five senators. (McCain and Glenn attended the meetings but did nothing else to influence the regulators.) McCain was guilty of nothing more than "poor judgment," the committee said, and declared his actions were not "improper nor attended with gross negligence." McCain considered the committee's judgment to be "full exoneration," and he contributed $112,000 (the amount raised for him by Keating) to the U.S. Treasury. (more) -
Do you prefer "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos, or "... Do you prefer "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos, or "Layla" unplugged? (more)
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+2 raves A patriot would never stoop to the lows that John McCain has, nor consider putting an unskilled p... A patriot would never stoop to the lows that John McCain has, nor consider putting an unskilled piece of offal such as Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency in the sad event that this terrible ticket wins. Great blog!!! (more)
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Being a conservative means you are " opposed to chan... Being a conservative means you are " opposed to change ". Being a liberal means you are "open to progress ". Which best describes you ? (more)
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How about a short inside look into the Family Values... How about a short inside look into the Family Values, God-Fearing Republican Party (more)
+4 raves Please don't make me look any further into their depraved inner workings than the last seven ... Please don't make me look any further into their depraved inner workings than the last seven years eight months and counting have taken us...! They are horrible! (more) -
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+5 raves Can you say treated like a mushroom? Kept in the dark and shoveled over with shit?
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+4 raves Only poll that matters happens once, ... in November!
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WILLIAM
lol. R.Lee Ermy, the guy playing the drill instructer, was a real Parris Island drill instructer before he was an actor!!! lol. Im gonna go through some tough sh**!!! haha
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WILLIAM
lol. I will Stacey!
p.s. Whats funny is that when I swar in, I went home and watched this! I was thinking to myself," what in the hell have I gotten myself into". lol.
WILLIAM
lol. looks like Im catchin up to you in raves!!! :oP
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May peace, love and prosperity fill your life in 2009
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WILLIAM
It went pretty well I guess. Christmas eve was better. I swar in to the marines that day!
WILLIAM
I see your back on!!! howve ya been Stacey?
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Just looked in Sierra Magazine's outings section - thinking about another big Sierra group backpack trip if my cousin doesn't want to explore the 'Bob' this summer. She's a Montana woman so she wouldn't have to travel...and I've never been there.
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With 2 beautiful little angels may your new year be one of discovery and fun.
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Ali ~ In ...
Hello, friend - how've you been? I wish you and your family marvelous holidays - as many as you can find time to celebrate!